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(60,573 posts)My daughters are both dual citizens of Germany and the USA, have been so with the blessings of both countries since they were born. One of them lives in the States, one of them lives in Germany. If she weren't such a pacifist, I'd almost tell the US-based one to arm herself against any illegal search and seizure, except in Trumpistan, that would probably get her killed. The Germany-based one has a high-paying (as in mid six-figures) job in Frankfurt, and would laughingly burn her US passport in front of any over-zealous immigration agent who thought that threatening to take away her US passport was something she was in some way scared of.
My wife is a German citizen, resident in Germany, and has been detained twice in a row at immigration in Atlanta by incompetent CBP officers. The most recent time, December 26th, the idiot said her fingerprints "didn't match." Maybe they hadn't cleaned their lenses recently, but I know for a fact that the fingers on my wife's hand on December 26th were the same ones she had on that hand the last 99 times she visited the USA. If this happens one time in a row, we'll avoid ATL altogether in the future. We like ATL because Delta flies nonstop from Düsseldorf to Atlanta, but if we have to change elsewhere, then so be it. Besides, I am platinum for life on Air France-KLM and their food is better anyway.